L'année 2019 a été particulière en terme de croissance et de challenge
et d'expérience
changements, tiens regardez ça
qui a dit ?
ta femme part visiter sa famille en Ukraine et il s'est dit je vais me raser la tête
c'était une façon de bousculer mon identité et nous allons en parler davantage dans ce blog. enfin bref avançons
il est en train de changer de sujet
I'm sure you guys have recently seen a blog from us come up about us being burnt out and exhausted
And how we had to cut back on content creation just because we were done like physically or doctors. It's because we're also
right now trying to find ways to
Find new strength and bring new energy to ourselves because I think it's been a wild
wild crazy year and we were
trying to figure out how to process it and believe that if we made that blog it would help us in our process and it
Did I think it made us become even more self aware of exactly where we were in our life to understand
Okay, so we're not feeling inspired. We just can't create right now. So how do we get that back?
Like what do we have to do in our lives?
So actually what really helped us in that process once we put that blog out into the internet
Atmosphere was what came back from you guys
Thank you guys so much like your emails your comments
unbelievably
It's really really cool to read so many stories as well of people going through a similar
thing what that have been through I have been through and and when you're
Feeling the way we felt and I think a lot of you can connect to the kind of burnout that we were going through
It's really alienated and anytime you're struggling in life. You always want to believe for some reason
It's our ego is telling us that we're so unique in our suffering and something that I think you
Truly helped us understand at a much deeper level. Is that no matter what situation
That makes you unique in your life what you do with your day who you are where you live on the planet all those things
That define your uniqueness do not also
Share in a unique suffering. There's a parallel for all
I think we all go through it at a point in our lives and I think it's important that we start the
conversation that this happens to all of us and so what can we do to help one another and
You know share what worked for you it didn't work for you and I think as it collectively we can begin to lift each other
up, and and that's kind of why we decided to do this blog because in the last two or three months we have implemented a
massive change in our life incredible change, too
Which has allowed us to start to feel this growth
starting to happen and the source the creative source that gets us not just to create but also to get up in the morning with
that energy and that vitality like that's what has
Resurfaced through us in a level like almost never before you neither. Am I hiding?
It's really really exciting
and so as soon as you
Surrender to the idea that we can always be better and that we can always implement something to improve that
Vitality and energy of migration then you realize there is no destination
It's easy as cliche as it sounds it is about actually just a journey without a destination
Space equals growth that's how we see it and so in our situation it was really important for us
To understand that for such a long time
We were just reacting to things that were coming to us and we needed to take that opportunity to remove ourselves from that
reaction state of mind
And give ourself space to truly think about like what is it that we actually want?
Where do we want to go rather than what do we need to do?
what do we need to respond or react to and so I think
For us to be able to understand what our actual goals are and where we see ourselves in the future
we needed to give our brains our mind that space to
dust away all the other stuff and just be and let again that energy come through or guide us to
Exactly. What is it that we feel passionate about and see ourselves in the future?
We live in this time of noise and really it just came down to quieting it
They say the scientists say that the human brain
processes about
90,000 thoughts a day
And they also say that 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts that you had the day before
and so what's really interesting about that is is that those thoughts those
80,000 or 70,000 that are the day before are actually our
Habits and our autopilot mode and when you're those habits they create your daily experience
so to some degree
90% of our day is spent just repeating the same thoughts emotions and experience which is really crazy if you think about it
But it's like we're used to getting up at a specific time drinking coffee out of the same mug
You know coming out of your bed on the same place like all these weird little things
These are habits and so for us when we really started thinking about that. We're like, okay, so
Let's begin to change things now. Let's create new habits. So how do we do that?
well
We need to implement new changes into our lives and into the way that we think because how we think is how we see ourselves
And how we see our place in the world
So it's it started with the simple stuff with it?
Which is just like let's implement a process of eliminating the bad
And adding the good and that included adding a portion into our meditation practice and visualization
Yeah
and we love it like that even even if
Only a minute but like at the very end when you feel like you're ready to come out of your meditation
taking that time to actually visualize what your day is going to be like so you're looking ahead and
Acting out and playing out your day in the most perfect way that you would like it to go
And also we finally got around
Now that we had a little space to create or recreate our dream board that I've been on our list for so long
But again, we're just so busy to even make a dream go
I do it every year on the first number like and this year is like March
We don't dream but what we did we went out and bought like a big board and we wrote out all our goals and personal
Goals, as well as your business goals, so it was really nice and we actually hung it up in our bedroom
So every time we get up in the morning and go to bed
We see that vision board and it reminds us of exactly where we need to be going
and then we also
Eliminated things from our life because our minds we realize are the factory that creates our life experience
So why would you allow negative?
Ingredients into our mind and our emotional being that would just then create a negative energy or a negative
Impulses in our thoughts and in our habits, so things like cutting out the news
We just stopped we say stop swiping left on your phone
Swiping left in your little news updates letting letting the corporate media sites that Apple thinks have relevant news
Determine what we should be thinking about in our quiet moments of the day and out of that. We also started creating new habits
So for example, one of the new habits we implement into our lives is getting up really early. We started getting up 5:00 a.m
At times it was even 4:30 in the morning and it first it was really difficult because you're like wow
I would get up at 5:00 a.m. And you know, I'd go running and I'm like it's 5:00 in the morning
What am I doing, right?
I had to really you know, fight that demon inside me like know if I want to create new habits
I have to put myself in an uncomfortable
state for a little while until that uncomfortable state becomes just part of my life because we all love to say
Oh, I'm not a more person. I could never do that
I'm just no but the question is when did you?
Decide that you're not a morning person because you had to decide that at some point. So all of a sudden we're deciding
Oh, I I'm not really a person that can thrive on healthy food
Or I'm not a person that can get up early in the morning
I'm not a person that can visualize or make dream boards
But those are all decisions that you believe those are beliefs about who you are and what you're capable
Of and the minute you speak it. It's true and trust me getting up at 5:00 joining the 5 a.m
Club as they say in the Internet is the most beneficial a
difficult thing
We've ever done
But it really opened up your day because it allowed us to have that time that we always need every day to do our yoga
or workouts
You know, whatever we need for ourselves. But then by the time we were done we had time to actually start working
The space exact the first principle it literally in put it just
Drops like parachutes an extra three hours into your day. So all of a sudden it's 9:00 a.m
And you've done so much and the whole world's. Just getting to their desk exactly
So that was a huge thing for us is getting up early
I'm trying to do fasting so we started intermittent fasting
And that's been a little bit challenging for me
Mark's been doing it a little bit longer than I go to a strict or now a lot stricter a lot stricter now and
and now it's like she really helped us kind of be a little bit more aware of exactly what we're
Putting into our bodies not to say that we ever really ate
We always ate super healthy, but I think intermittent fasting and knowing you have a window in your day to eat
You're like well if I have this window to eat, I want to make sure
Everything I'm putting into my body is high high nutritious and it's caused a really amazing level of discipline
And the kind of discipline that it does so much benefit that you actually it's self-love which is discipline
It's not just discipline being like like how you discipline a child
it's like this kind of discipline is the kind of brings so much into your life and
Then on the other side of that it's also
really heightened that food awareness
The third thing that we found incredible results from implementing into our life was heightening our
Focus through the process of aggressively eliminating as many distractions as possible
and with that I think what really helped us was the idea of lists and
We were kind of crazy about it at times. I would look at a bit. Like we look like crazy people still we
still doing them I
Mean the list that we would create would literally go in like 15
Which is 30 minute increments like that was from the minute. We woke up. It would be like 5:00 a.m. Wake up
5:15 I'm on the mat 5:30
I'm doing this
You know and literally it it planned out our day and such
Detail that it allowed us to just constantly be in this state of focus like and that was the key
I think finding that focus which gave you a
Purpose to accomplish. So it's like look I have half an hour to go through X amount of emails
I'm going to sit here and do it because in half an hour I have something else to do and that actually helped with that
Whole idea that Mark was talking about distraction is you weren't going on Instagram
Oh my girl because you have 30 minutes to complete that
Oh and that's the thing is that there's some kind of crazy statistics out there about how many times our phone?
Interrupts, whatever we're focusing on and that's not just like push notifications for social media
but that's even just text messages and and
allowing phone calls to interrupt and those kinds of things so we actively stop using our phones like a ball and chain and
Carrying them everywhere we go. We've taken off all our personal. Actually. We don't even have any personal social media anymore
But we've taken the apps off the phones
so that when we are in quiet moments you find yourself going to do that thing where you just open an app because you're sitting
On a bus or you're waiting for something or you're in between whatever and those minutes can no longer be filled with that
So there's space for creativity and ideas and inspirations and thoughts
Information - I found that like once I was able to create a list of focus for myself. I inspired to complete it
I felt motivated to call because it felt so good to be able to cross cross things out of like
completed completed completed every time
every little time where you get to your mat in the first 15 minutes of being awake you cross that off the list and that's
Momentum to build upon and every time you cross something off. It feels so empowering to be in control
which brings us to the second half of this which is really important and that's surrendering to the acceptance that
anything can happen and you can plan but you cannot assure that it's going to go that way so when it doesn't it's
totally fine
it allows just like a real fluidity to
Everything that makes everything seem a lot easier because when you have focus you have a roadmap
And that kind of ties a little bit
So the distraction thing is really important to us
And as well with the space because they all kind of work together in great like a great
Symbiotic structure is how we plan our next trip, which we're actually leaving on very very very soon actually
But why don't we talk about this in the forest? Okay
Like a genie would so we are here now and when a Prince's favorite perks elk Lake which we also love as well
And we thought that it would be fitting to that. You guys know our next trip, which is very much in line
Everything that we've been talking about finding space and connecting deeper to ourselves
So we've decided to explore Nepal and Tibet
They'll be far less internet and far less distractions and far less society
So we will be documenting the whole thing on Instagram. So if you guys do have Instagram, make sure you're following us
Put our link right here there so a beautiful life and we'll be posting stories and photos and all
Crazy kinds of updates from our adventures. Yeah. Anyway, let's go back to the office. Mmm
So the last principle that kind of over arches everything that we're going to touch on just briefly
Because it deserves and probably could very easily be a blog in and of itself
uh-huh is the idea of changing up and shaking your
self-identity and belief structure to make sure that
the things that you do and the pieces of
Your identity that you believe are you?
Are truly you and not just things that you've adapted to or adopted because it makes you more comfortable in this chaos called life
existence
When I think comfort is a huge thing, I think even for us that we were comfortable living a specific
Schedule at a time and once we started implementing these new
behaviors and habits into our life
it forced us to step outside of our comfort zone and
Really really challenge ourselves and I even think this guy right here doing this
Pretty looks about shaving his head. I think that's a perfect example of stepping outside your comfort zone
I mean, I he's he's like trying to convince. He's like you should shave your head. I think she should hell no
highly-efficient there's something so special that you don't even realize until you have a haircut for 15 years and then you do something so
Quickly and so impulsively and so drastically that affects you every time you look in the mirror
it affects me every time it glitches my matrix and
Reminds me that I am a being that will never be the same
and it's so
Liberating to just let go what a crazy
Spiritual experience something as stupid as cutting my hair turned out to be but anyways
moving on I think that we can close this whole thing off by just saying it's about
Challenging the way we live with the goal of just trying to live a better and richer and more inspiring
existence and I think it's also about
Optimization it's figuring away. How can I optimize my life to a greater potential, you know?
What can I do in my everyday life? That would allow me to do more to be more to give more?
Be more loving to be more open to
Love myself and a great away by giving myself more time
like there's there's ways there's answers to everything out there and I think it comes down to
Yourself and us ourselves just sitting down a bit. Okay. What changes do I have to implement so I can live a better life?
I can be a better person it is it so it's a whole new level of self-awareness and
It's a very difficult concept and it started one day
I think when we read Eckhart Tolle's a new earth and it's been a seven or eight year journey
That's led us to here and I don't even think we scratch this wheel. I think we're just at the beginning
So with that
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